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Behold SubTropolis: The Underground City Located In An Excavated Kansas Mine
More than 1,000 people spend their workdays in an industrial park housed in an excavated mine the size of 140 football fields. As Bloomberg reports, the underground industrial park known as SubTroplis opened for business in 1964 in an excavated mine below Kansas City, Mo. attracting tenants with the lure of lower energy costs and cheap rents...
About 10 percent of Kansas City's commercial real estate is underground, says Ora Reynolds, president of SubTropolis landlord Hunt Midwest. Landlords have made a cottage industry out of underground industrial space, thanks to rock formations near the Missouri River that allow trucks to drive into the old mines instead of tenants needing to use elevators to get things in and out.
Industrial chic: Subtropolis boasts 17-foot-high ceilings supported by rough-hewn columns. The 270-million-year-old limestone deposits are six times stronger than concrete, according to Hunt Midwest's marketing materials.
Subtropolis's cool climate helped attract cloud computing company LightEdge, which has become the anchor tenant in what Hunt Midwest hopes will develop into a major data center.
The U.S. Postal Service uses Subtropolis as a distribution hub for postage stamps, storing hundreds of millions of stamps in the facility.
The USPS rents more than 500,000 square feet at SubTropolis.
The National Archives and Records Association keeps old tax records and federal court documents at the facility. Pick a fight with the Internal Revenue Service and the paper trail may lead to these shelves.
Vanguard Packaging prints retail packaging and supermarket displays in its 500,000-square-foot space. Vanguard calls itself the most sustainable packaging company in North America.
Journey to the center of the earth—or at least, to EarthWorks, an educational program that schools students on the Midwest's natural habitats in a 32,000 square-foot space in SubTropolis.
Some cannisters in this archive hold the original film from Gone with the Wind.
"I have no idea how many pounds of coffee I have down here," says Joe Paris, vice president at Paris Brothers, a specialty foods company. "I have thousands of bags. Some of them are 60 or 70 kilos. It's a lot."
SubTropolis is down the road from an assembly plant at which Ford manufactures F150 pickups. This has attracted companies such as Knapheide, shown here, which manufactures steel bodies that get rigged onto Ford trucks.
One tenant in SubTropolis's Automotive Alley is Ground Effects, which provides a variety of conversion services.
Road runners have been competing in 5-kilometer and 10k races inside SubTropolis's seven miles of roadways for 33 years.
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Been there itss massive quite the city with semis rolling throughout all day long...........nice bugout place for a lot of people
See also: Isaac Asimov, "Caves of Steel"
And the "Eloi" live up on nice golf courses and tennis courts somewhere?
When the SHTF, the hard working dwarves will be holed up there as a defensive position against the pavement orcs.
It's like a breath of fresh...oh wait, shit where's my gas mask
Cool... their mascot is a fat, stoner groundhog called Gus.
I'm pretty damn sure I went to school with that guy.
That's just puny, Detroit has a much larger salt mine 1200 feet under the city.
http://scribol.com/anthropology-and-history/the-giant-salt-city-1200ft-b...
Detroit’s salt mines are like an underground city within the city. It is a massive expanse of 1,500 acres and over 100 miles of roads right under everyone’s feet. It stretches from Dearborn, located in the northwest of Detroit’s metropolitan area, and known to automobile lovers as Henry Ford’s birthplace, via Melvindale to Allen Park in the southwest.
Chicago deep tunnel. 65miles of covert UMB.
Well on the plus end - if the world ends and everyone is retreated down there you will still get the mail..
"nice bugout place for a lot of people" - not any more! Been there many times - weird and awesome, never heard of or seen anything else like it. "The Caves". But, there's lots and lots of (smaller) good caves and old mines in the region.
Been in there also, driving a 17' box truck for a pick up. Was a little nervous until I saw full sized semi's all over, no problem for my little rig. I spoke for awhile with the warehouse staff, outside of never seeing the sun they seemed to enjoy working there... A really trippy place.
One of these near Springfield, MO as well called Springfield Underground. I think it's a great use of storage space with how dry and cool it down there, unless the roof caves in, of course.
What are they worried about. America is #1, we have the best military, and a world reserve currencey. Every other country looks up to us, we are the only Sueprpower left. America rules the world and always will.
Lol,That's what the Romans and British used to say.
Kansas City here I come..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhajbgPOv6c
Wasnt tt the Morlocks in HG Wells' The TimeMachine that lived underground?
HG Wells was a fucking socialist and turned things upside down.
Now I know where I am going when the nukes start flying.
...too bad you'll be stuck in there with a bunch of folks from Kansas.
hehehe......at least we'll have guns........;-)
Yeah. Imagine being stuck in there with this freak from Kansas.
Miss Kansas, actually...
Maryann for the Win!
You might be surprised. They have just as much TV, NFL and Hollywood in Kansas as everywhere else so the people are now almost as fucked up as the rest of us.
Did you choke on reading comprehension? Kansas City, Missouri. Paveway has it right- I've met a few cuties from Kansas...
Dat's where all dat gubmint cheese lives too!
It's in Missouri, not Kansas.
Too bad your stuck with a bunch of folks from Missouri.
.........and again.......at least we'll have our guns...:-)
Missoura
Misery
Even worse - you could be stuck with this local Missouri hag.
She probably throws like a girl, too.
Ahhhhhhh....I need eyewash...............in breeding must stop.........
Ahhhhhhh....I need eyewash...............in breeding must stop.........
What difference does it make!
Hillary (the next LIQ... lesbian-in-qweef)
"There ain't nuthin uglier than an old white woman." Fred Sanford
i'll put this here:
CME Group says it will close most of its futures trading pits in Chicago and New York City by July 2, 2015.
It will maintain its options trading pit and the S&P 500 futures market.
"Equity index futures pits and the DJIA ($10) and NASDAQ-100 options pits will close following the expiration of the June 2015 contract on June 19, 2015," the company said in a release.
CME Group says it will try to offer booth space to those who want to trade electronically following the closures.ut
Very good post.
15 yrs ago you could make a living trading 5 contacts on the Dow, boucing around the value area.
PS Chicago blows. There's listerine and paper cups in every bathroom at the CME but the sinks are so low you would have to stoop to wash your dick in it.
I keep thinking of this song.
The danger will pass in a few days folks... Please move forward>>>>
It probably sucks to live there but at least they're prepared.
Sinatra:
Subtropolis, it's crazy kind of town
A nutty, kooky, kooky, nutty kind of town....
How the hell do you get clean air in there?? or don't you?
I think I've read that there are natural convection currents that move air through the caves, but it might need air blowers to force air through the tunnels like in underground mining, not for sure.
Fans Bubba
There was a scifi story about this sort of thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penultimate_Truth
The spirit of Dr. Strangelove is alive and well.
Kubrick was great.
If derivative gold can hold on long enough, all gold mines will be turned into sub cities.
Make a Vegas underground.
What's next?... The FedEx underwater base?
Water filters radiation better.
This is where Soylent Green will open their doors when overpopulation and robots lead to no jobs for humans.
Next up... Mole people sleeping in storage units with communal bathrroms.
Underground facilities to pay double property tax because their lower energy costs reduce "revenue" to the theft-authorities up top in 3..2..
The banksters need to repay us.
And also be accused by the "climate change" scammers of increasing "global warming."
I wonder about the air circulation in that place. ICE's running in and out of it, looks like the "conversion" place has a paint booth.
Once the grid goes down it's just a large tomb.....
Lovely! How's the birdsong?
(Something's happening here and what it is is perfectly clear...)
Who DOESN'T school their kids about the "natural habitat" in a 32,000 sq. ft. hole in the ground?
USA! USA!
Keep digging Einstones!
Kansas City, MO is where these pics are taken, not Kansas City, KS. Yes, there is a difference. I fucking live in this SHITHOLE fucking city. These people are fucking weird here. It used to be the meth capital of the world and you can still see the aftermath. Creepy. Not many attractive females here either, which blows.
Why don't you get the hell out of there if you don't like it? But thanks for the geography lesson anyway.
Ever hear of a job moving you somewhere, ya smartass fuck?
Bullshit, you're too stupid to have a job.
Enjoy riding your bokf puts to zero while i laugh my ass off every day since i cashed out on its low. Hahahahahahahahaha
miss me?
Enjoy riding your bokf puts to zero. Huh? Never bought it.
Like I said, stupid.
you two need to get a fucking room, shit
she is obsessed with me, always has been. Follows me on here, on yahoo and on fb. Literally obsessed and hates me because I make money trading and she loses everything she touches lol
I'm nearest to The D.
I’m sure you heard about the ‘Detroit Man Who Walks 21 Miles a Day to Work’.
A lot of illiterate & mentally ill people in this area.
It’s third world thinking around this place.
Wait... you work on Capitol Hill?
I though you just said you work in Kansas City?
FSA World Headquarters, Detroit MI, U.S.A.
Wait, that is terrorist city USA
These people are fucking weird here. It used to be the meth capital of the world and you can still see the aftermath. Creepy. Not many attractive females here either, which blows.
Hey chad the short dick, sorry you can't afford to get out of Ruskin Heights.
BTW Blow me. Real good call on UWTI (-20%) and UCO (-13%). You belong on the yahoo boards, not here. Only dicks talk about their specific trades.
Mad because you didn't get out of BOKF like I did when it dropped on eps day? Now you're stuck at a loss hahahahaha fuckin troll. And I sold UTWI and UCO for a profit. And you? You can't make a profit on your own mom's pussy.
If you can't score in KC, you need less time on the BB terminal. Roll out to Westport at about 11:30 and strike up a convo. There are plenty of Midwestern beauties there.
Did I say I can't score here? I score here with a simple snap of the fingers. I said there aren't too many attractive females like there are in atlanta, all over florida, denver, la, ny or any other place I go to. Girl I'm talking to now is pretty hot.
There's fuckin snatch anywhere. Denver bitches got the armpit shit. NY is where I met my wife and got plenty of pussy there. Hotlanta has hotties. LA has the bi-beauties but Florida? Shit. Those girls are fucked up.
Lets hope your wife doesn't follow you on ZH like the troll, my stalker, travis snickel, follows and stalks me everywhere
lol
ahh, nothing a few canisters of Zyclon B won't solve.
Lice is the least of their problems.
Morlocks, man!
Been there too. Disaster recovery mecca, being underground and all.
Yeah everything is great now but wait until the EPA tree huggers notice them. All those noxious fumes from the humans and their toys underground has to be against one or two laws.
I grew up in KC and have been in these. I used to make deliveries for my father's business to a printing press. It's a fallout shelter too and rumor is that the USGov has a presence there.
They will delve too deep and awake an ancient evil!!
The Balrog!
The National Archives and Records Association keeps old tax records and federal court documents at the facility. Pick a fight with the Internal Revenue Service and the paper trail may lead to these shelves.
I'll just file this away in my basement archive under potentially useful information.
Somebody need to burn that archive to save everyone!! Forget about flying a plan to irs totally waste for valuable lives when you can just find way to burn down a paper storage location. Btw we shouldn't waste any valuable storage for old garbage films just put them up in cloud space and do done with it,
This story reminds me of The Smiths' song, "What difference does it make"? Only the "elites" will have access to this area for survival when TSHTF. And yes, Jugdish, the morlocks lived underground in Herbert George Welles' "The Time Machine".
New Madrid vs 270 myo limestone?
New Madrid is about 4-500 miles away from KC. Despite the numerous fault lines that run through Kansas, Kansas City is pretty stable geo wise. New Madrid could really mess up St. Louis, Memphis and most of Southern Mo/Northern Ark because of the Karst formations (kinda like beating on a drum) however the points N/S along the Mississippi will be more affected by Madrid than KC would be.
Ahh, ty!
I live in kcmo. Been here many times. There are also other underground spaces like this here as well. Kcmo, the most underrated awesomeness in the US. Minus the kc fed of course.
You like this shithole city? Kansas Shitty sucks at everything.
How does Superman get around .... on a faggy Vespa ?
Superman Renounces U.S. Citizenship In 'Action Comics' #900
http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2011/04/superman-citizenship-1303916053.jpg
I want my own drive in Batcave with lots of chrome plated treadplate and cool looking leaky steam-pipes.
I painted the stormcellar with white weep-lock sealer so it would reflect light from the hurricane lanterns and one day I come home to the cellar door open and I go down there to see the wife finishing up stenciling a border design around the top of the walls.
"I didn't like it. It looked so cold and uninviting. Now it's cheery." she says with that grin that makes her look 18 all over again.
"Yes Honey, because when you have a Cat. 5 tornado roaming through the neighborhood, destroying everything you own, you can always use some cheering up."
"Quiet or I'll paint big flowers on the walls." That comes with the look that says you'll be hating life soon.
"It's a nice, neat job. Very cheery."
I want a Batcave.
Safe haven from them massivre twisters they get out there. Eat yer heart out Dorothy.
Those underground spaces won't survive a massive nuclear exchange.
Those bone heads will still be living underground long after other tribes have reinhabited the surface.
Detroit Salt Mine
Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter The Giant Salt City 1200ft Beneath Detroithttp://scribol.com/anthropology-and-history/the-giant-salt-city-1200ft-beneath-detroit
CIA tunnels?
57:18 “There is an underwater San Diego military facility. It’s considered part of their D.U.M.B. network….These are underground military cities in the United States…there are nodes in Denver, which is called CIA West.”
https://www.perpetualassets.com/news/2015/02/02/the-quickening-with-jim-...
UPDATE:
It is also true that Chimera controls a system of subterranean strongholds, with Long Island being their only major access point to the surface. These subterranean strongholds of the Chimera are totally unrelated to DUMBs (deep underground military bases). All DUMBs have been cleared already and Negative Military and the Cabal has no access to Chimera strongholds, so they are stranded on the surface.
What in the world is all of this? Space aliens and illuminati???? hello, McFly?
Theres a giant underground in Arkansas, it was used by Hillary Clinton to store her cache of teenage girls in which to munch upon. Apparently theres abunch of these type facilities I read about a big one in Nevada that has all sorts of weird ass conspiracies tied to it like aliens, possibly lezzie aliens being stored for future use by Hillary.
Theres a giant underground in Arkansas, it was used by Hillary Clinton to store her cache of teenage girls in which to munch upon. Apparently theres abunch of these type facilities I read about a big one in Nevada that has all sorts of weird ass conspiracies tied to it like aliens, possibly lezzie aliens being stored for future use by Hillary.
There are locations like that all over the country. There are also an underground, intercontinental highway system. You better believe it. You've read and seen the stories where residents in an area hear strange noises.
Again, Chicago Deep Tunnel. 65 miles arterial complex and UMB.
Reminds me of the Iron Moutain facility in Pennsylvania. I think they have one in KC as well.
"Secret facilities" hidden in plain sight.
WTF? "140 football fields"??? What does that mean? Ever heard of acres, square kilometers, square miles...? Stinkin' "football fields" again.
This isn't a normal city man. The chiefs are the only thing this shithole has so everything is in "Chief terms." Well, the Royals did make it to game 7 of the word series last year. After missing the playoffs for 29 straight years.
The word series in '85 was awsome.
"word" series lol. Yes, mr. brett, whom I have met several times!!!!! He is a god here.
As the other locals have noted, 'The Caves' have been around for awhile, crafted by the Hunt family who conned Clay County tax payers out of 'scrap land' North of the Missouri river. On top of which sits the Tons of Scum YMCAesque amusement park. Same Hunt douches who own the Kansas City Chiefs, Arrowhead, et al whose patriarch H.L. Hunt with $1B oil money, 3 wives and 15 children run amok (think Hunt Brothers silver market cornering attemp in the 70s.). It's the same in every city. A douche by any other name smells just as douchey.
How the fuck did a mine in Kansas City, MISSOURI turn into "An Excavated Kansas Mine"?
Is this the former bunker where the Kansas fuehrer dug in before the occupation and redrawing of the state lines?
THX 1138
Future home of the Morlocks?
I already know where the Eloi live.